The
democratization of Movie-Making has conducted many users to buy camcorders
and video capture cards solutions. Indeed the price of such equipment
reached $50,000 a few years ago. Now you can buy a complete multimedia
editing solution for only $5000. But a remaining problem is that editing
videos on computers has always been a hard and dull task to do especially
for novice users that discover tools like Adobe Premiere (which is
certainly very efficient software) but also very complex. The Canadian
‘eye’ software manufacturer, MGI, has unveiled to the world its brand
new video solution: VideoWave 3.5. This brand new software brings
simplicity to edit high-end videos on computers. One sentence really
reflects what this new release brings to the product: “PC
Video Made Even Easier.” If I have to say something about it I’d
say ‘Simply the best’. So
below is a complete review of this innovative software.

Features

Support
of analogue video capture including USB Cameras and brand new support
for DV camcorders and PC connection standards (IEEE-1394 / FireWire).

Unique
SmartDV technology that only renders or produces the parts of a DV
video that have been edited in order to speed up the production of DV
movies.

Ability
to change the colors of text effects for each Start, Hold and Finish
position

The
Special Effects editor of VideoWave 3.5 allows users to apply any of
the 26 included special effects.

Publish
templates: the produce movie box allows you to select your output
format from a complete list of preset templates (MPEG1/2;VideoCD;
Video Email; WebVideo) But you can also create your own production
templates.

VideoWave
includes a number of predefined templates for various hardware capture
cards. The type of video file you want to create defines the settings,
e.g. ‘ATI All-in-Wonder for VCR’. Settings allow you to select
different templates, further edit or create your own capture
templates.

VideoWave
now allows you to view and dynamically change the brightness,
Contrast, Color & Hue of video you’ll capture.

MGI
VideoWave III comes in a very luxurious box that really impressed us. With
such a nice box the software cannot be bad! After unpacking it you’ll
discover two CDs. One CD contains the setup program and the other one
contains the content stuff that may be needed by the software. Insert the
first CD, and the setup will start. We found the setup program a little
bit banal in terms of interface: it’s an old InstallShield Setup and not
a Windows Installer one…

While
the setup is working you can take a look at the user’s guide, which is
really excellent as it contains a lot of color pictures printed on glossy
paper with easy to understand texts and steps. In a few minutes, MGI
VideoWave III will be installed on your computer and will take 45MB of
your hard disk space. Then simply launch the software by locating it in
the start menu.

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